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1 as fire kindles the brushwood
and causes the water to boil,
to make your name known to your enemies,
so that the nations will tremble at your presence!
2 When you did awesome works that we did not expect,
you came down, and the mountains trembled at your presence.
3 From ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
4 You welcome those who gladly do right,
who remember your ways.
Surely you were angry, for we sinned.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
5 Each of us has become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all wither like a leaf,
and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
6 No one calls on your name
or strives to take hold of you.
For you have hidden your face from us
and made us melt in the hand of our iniquity.
7 But now, O LORD, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
8 Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure;
do not remember our iniquity forever.
Oh, look upon us, we pray;
we are all your people!
9 Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
10 Our holy and beautiful temple,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
11 After all this, O LORD,
will you restrain yourself?
Will you keep silent
and afflict us beyond measure?